Function at the UvA

Susan Bögels (psychotherapist) is professor in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Amsterdam, director of the Academic treatment Centre for Parent and Child, UvA minds and director of the Academic training Centre, UvA minds You.
Her main research area is the intergenerational transmission of anxiety from parents to children. She also studies the prevention and treatment of child anxiety disorders through child- and family-focused interventions. Applying mindfulness as an intervention in the family context is another area of interest.

de Bruin, E. I, Zijlstra, B., & Bögels, S.M. (in press). The meaning of
mindfulness in children and adolescents: Further validation of the child and
adolescents mindfulness measure (CAMM) in two independent samples from the
Netherlands. Mindfulness.

Oord, S. van der, Bögels, S.M., & Peijnenburg, D. (2012). The
effectiveness of mindfulness training for children with ADHD and mindful
parenting for their parents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 21, 139-147.

van Steensel, F. J., Bögels, S. M., & de Bruin, E. I. (2012). Psychiatric
Comorbidity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Comparison with
Children with ADHD. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-9.

Colonnesi, C., Napoleone, E., & Bögels, S. M. (2014). Positive and negative expressions of shyness in toddlers: are they related to anxiety in the same way? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(4), 624-637. DOI: 10.1037/a0035561[details]

de Bruin, E. I., Zijlstra, B. J. H., & Bögels, S. M. (2014). The meaning of Mindfulness in children and adolescents: Further validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) in two independent samples from The Netherlands. Mindfulness, 5(4), 442-430. DOI: 10.1007/s12671-013-0196-8[details]

Majdandžić, M., de Vente, W., & Bögels, S. (2010). Rearing histories of individuals with and without social anxiety who become first time parents. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 23(3), 243-258. DOI: 10.1080/10615801003596951[details]

2008

2018

de Vente, W., Majdandzic, M., & Bögels, S. M. (2018). Is autonomic hyperarousal of the fear system a specific concomitant of a fearful temperament, which is transmitted from parents to their children?. Poster session presented at Occasional Temperament Conference, Murcia, Spain.

de Vente, W., Majdandzic, M., & Bögels, S. M. (2015). Is social anxiety disorder in parents related to higher physiological arousal and arousability in their offspring?. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) 2015 , Philadelphia, United States.